GAVIN NOLAN is one of the most visceral painters currently
practising in London. His contorted portraits communicate a
terrible, angst ridden surreality that is beguiling and
astonishing. Nolan appears to channel directly into an
underlying anxiety found within the core of the human condition
and communicate it with a distinctive verve. Most recently Nolan
has been combining photorealistic techniques with painterly
expression to render his dynamic works with an alluring horror.
TIM PARR’s extraordinary, hyper-real
paintings combine beautifully observed details from the natural
world with fantastical events. His reveries draw upon
mythological characters that urge us to suspend reality and
enter into a twilight world populated by Lilliputian humans,
fairies, witches and hybrid creatures. Set in semi-rural
environments such as Hampstead Heath Parr’s delicate paintings
combine the familiar with the extraordinary, hinting at an
alternative, magical reality that exists tantalisingly just
beyond our reach.
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